The number of days of stay in the year was 29,492, which is more than 4% higher than in 2022, and the average stay in the ward is 4.7 days.

Most of the patients were admitted to emergency wards, 77% of the total admissions.

The inpatient wards have been under considerable pressure and bed occupancy has increased considerably. The internal medicine ward has now 100.4% capacity, and 89.2% last year, and the surgical ward 96.2% now and 89% last year. There has also been pressure on the psychiatric ward. It's bed occupancy rate in the year 84.3% compared to 75.2% last year.

Emergency visits by individuals 75 years and older have increased by 13% since Covid-19, a corresponding increase in admission to SAk wards. On average about 6.4 individuals are inpatients who are already undergoing treatment or waiting for rehabilitation or a place in a nursing home.

Over 10,500 individuals have received outpatient services, 2,273 of which have been received chemotherapy, compared to 2,180 last year, a 5% increase.

The emergency wards have over 17,900 contacts compared with 16,558 at the same time last year, making the year-on-year increase over 8%. Waiting time to see a doctor in the emergency room is now about 43 minutes, which is slightly above our criteria for a 40 minute wait for a doctor.

Surgeries in the year were 2,598, 33.4% being emergency operations. Prosthetic operations were 330, which is slightly below the annual estimate.

The number of medical imaging examinations (without mammograms) were about 40,300, on average, making it about 110 examinations a day.

Analysis completed at the clinical laboratory during the year amounted to 282,000, 269 of which were PCR-Covid tests.

There were about 6% fewer births than last year. 410 babies were born 2023 compared with 436 in 2022.

There have been a lot of tourists during the year, with a 27% increase between years in admittance of uninsured persons in the emergency wards. Similarly, the number of admissions is similar to last year with a prominent peak in the summer months.